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Originally posted by MOBIUS View PostI don't understand what the fuss is really, apart from 5 pages of misogyny...
She's clearly made a success out of living her dream, so good for her. It could be that she's 'blessed' with an extremely slim figure to begin with as she certainly doesn't seem emaciated in the way that many of the size 0 models clearly are...
Although she's not my type, I can certainly acknowledge a certain curious attraction.
Have a better look at the arms and legs
I would think the misogyny would be in encouraging women to starve themselves.(\__/)
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I recently read an article on Jezebel about the subreddit r/CandidFashionPolice.
Apparently, if you've seen a pic of a young woman dressed provocatively in public, you are literally Hitler. Enjoying such images is the same as gassing people and burning them in ovens.To us, it is the BEAST.
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'Breatharian' Barbie Valeria Lukyanova Says She Wants To Live Off Light And Air AloneA Ukrainian model who has cast herself as a real-life Barbie doll says she eventually hopes to live without eating or drinking.
Valeria Lukyanova, whose doll-like features and ultra-thin waist have stirred controversy in the past, has apparently made it her goal to survive "on air and light alone."
"In recent weeks I have not been hungry at all," Lukyanova said, according to the International Business Times. "I'm hoping it's the final stage before I can subsist on air and light alone."
The website linked that dietary desire to a New Age practice known as Breatharianism, in which followers neither eat nor drink, believing they can exist solely on "cosmic micro-food."
Lukyanova, who believes in reincarnation and claims to have been in contact with transdimensional beings, has said she uses her appearance to promote her "spiritual ideas."
But Jezebel.com maintains that Lukyanova is merely starving herself in order to maintain her dollish proportions.
Last year, a 65-year-old Seattle woman who went 47 days living only on water and tea, cited Breatharian yogis as her inspiration. Naveena Shine's goal was to maintain the extreme fast for 100 days, but she called it off after receiving what she called "a message from the universe that it is time to stop."
Commenting on Shine's case, Dr. Ronald Hoffman, medical director of the Hoffman Center and host of a weekly health talk podcast, told the Guardian that it is "delusional to think that you can escape the laws of biology."
At least one person has starved to death trying to adhere to a Breatharian regimen.
I would like to see another five pages of misogynists trying to discourage her from living off of light and air.
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There's some optimum balance to found between accepting everyone for their worth as thinking beings according to their individual merits, and accepting the plain fact that we are sexual beings. I try not to get worked up about others finding a different balance, provided they don't go out of their way to make it my problem.
The breatharian thing isn't new news, and she's either not trying very hard or hasn't published any recent pictures for over a month...
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Not always.
Years ago I went to some group therapy thing. One of the meetings across the hall was for eating disorders. All of those women in the program looked healthier than this woman.
It's sad, more than anything else. She doesn't seem to have anyone around her looking out for her. Parents? Friends? Boyfriend even? She seems to have zero support.
I'm not going to sit here and be party to this woman's self-destruction.To us, it is the BEAST.
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